Limit of Eyes

Good job! Those will be good eatin for sure

Congrats, some hogs in there (unless from Erie, then I guess average...).  River or lake?

Eman was that you down at the HPD friday? saw a guy with a nice stringer of fish down there. Good catch man!

nice catch, BTW is canada dry in season?
 
 

Hmm...it was late, not sure if it was after midnight or not...Im guessing they were illegal then. We were trying for flats. Not too often you see people keeping that many fish out of that stretch of river haha

Then again the river flows into the city, so you don't have all the sewage and what not up there like you would fishing around downtown.

 
You might be surprised.
 
Plenty of raw sewage flows into the rivers miles from Downtown Pittsburgh. There's a huge outflow in California, PA in Washington County for example (not to mention West Pike Run, the stocked trout stream that flows into the Mon there that gets a nice supply of raw sewage from some of the old coal towns on its banks).
 
I've seen lots of other outflows around too, plus all the streams, plus the pure stuff running over banks here and there. 
 
And then you can factor in all the industrial waste. Ever look at the water around USS Clairton Works or some of the other remaining facilities along the rivers? Redstone Creek or some of the others that run orange for most of the year? Remember the fish kill in Dunkard Creek, tributary to the Mon? There's reportedly a bad leak of old mine water pouring into Ten Mile now.
 
And you have the effects of all the mining and fracking (and disposal of the waste and water from those wonderful endeavors) in places like Washington and Greene counties, and West Virginia further south.
 
It's counterintuitive but sometimes the more rural the area the worse the water conditions.

I personally would never eat anything from the 3rivers pool.  Fishing can be good.  However eating fish that swim in my own **** and S**t.  No thanks.  Not to mention the condoms ive seen floating around.  Allegheny white fish.  That just came from a local toilet.  9billion gallons of raw sewage. 
 
A main goal of this blog is to help its readers prioritize the biggest threats to water quality and to understand that, though gas drilling impacts are real, they are well down the list of the most serious causes of pollution of Pennsylvania's waters. A must read is yesterday's Pittsburgh Post Gazette front page story about the massive amounts of sewer overflows that reach rivers in the Pittsburgh region multiple times each year.
http://www.post-gazette.com/stories/local/region/alcosan-sewer-project-gets-little-public-input-653713/.

The annual volume of untreated sewage reaching rivers and streams is reported as 9 billion gallons per year and occurs in 30 to 70 storms annually, according to the Post Gazette. And the bill for stopping this pollution and cleaning up is a staggering $2.8 billion.

Maybe Consol will step in with a donation. That company is an environmental hero. (All you'll have to do is let them frack under the Golden Triangle and/or put their name on some more stadiums.)